Right now, we have the following:
F13 branched tree:
fedora-release - enabled - points to F13
fedora-release-rawhide - disabled - points to rawhide
Rawhide:
fedora-release - enabled - sets releasever to 14, ergo points to rawhide
fedora-release-rahwide - disabled - points to rawhide
This would imply that fedora-release-rawhide doesn't serve much purpose
*in* rawhide. So, I'm wondering if we might want to do this differently.
Proposal: don't ship fedora-release-rawhide at all. To move between
streams, run "yum --releasever <whatever> install/upgrade fedora-release"
Going over the various usage cases:
1) Release has not yet branched, want to switch, or use rawhide packges
Currently:
yum install fedora-release-rawhide
yum --enablerepo=rawhide ...
New:
yum --releasever=<next> ...
2) Release has branched; want to pull from never-frozen rawhide devel
stream.
Currently:
yum install fedora-release-rawhide
yum --enablerepo=rawhide ...
New:
yum --releasever=<next> ...
3) You're on rawhide, the release has branched, you want to go to the
stable release.
Currently:
If you don't have rawhide enabled, do nothing - this happens automatically.
If you do have rawhide enabled:
... you're kind of screwed.
New:
Do nothing - this happens automatically.
4) You're on rawhide, the release has branched, and you want to *stay*
on rawhide.
Currently:
If you're using fedora-release-rawhide to be on rawhide, do nothing.
If you're using fedora-release + MM:
yum install fedora-release-rawhide
yum --enablerepo=rawhide upgrade
New:
yum --releasever=<next> upgrade
Am I missing something? Do people think this would be better, or worse?
Bill
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